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G. K. Chesterton Quotes

«I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.»
«I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.»
«The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. The really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.»
«I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.»
«Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.»
«The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.»
«The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.»
«Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Courage | Keywords: inch
«Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.»
«Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.»

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